About Cressman Center for Visual ArtsThe Department of Fine Arts, endowed as the Hite Art Institute, is committed to furthering the mission of the University of Louisville to become a preeminent urban research university through the establishment of a visual arts center in downtown Louisville. The opening in November 2006 of the Cressman Center for Visual Arts located at the corner of First and Main Streets in the heart of downtown is the first step in this process. The Cressman Center expands department's studio art and exhibition programs and provides an educational focus for the visual arts within urban the center of the city. Covering 12,000 square feet, the Cressman Center is the home of the department's glass program and features a hotshop and cold working studios, sculpture studios and shops, seminar room and galleries.